Making your goals a priority

Jennifer says: As I sit in my comfortable chair in the corner of my bedroom contemplating when would be the best time to resume my writing course or work on the other projects I've got going, I realize I spend far too much time in that chair. Mind you, the book for my writing course is within arm's reach of that same chair. So is my desk, photography books, computer, drawing pencils, camera, etc. It's sort of funny, in an "I can't believe I'm admitting this" way to see it on paper. Yet I'm watching TV and planning when I should work on something. Wow. I'm always surfing the net, another activity I spend far too much time doing, for motivational "You can do it" kind of article and sites. I was reading one, I forget the name, about an Australian motivational speaker / life coach. He wrote to the effect that the majority of us spend way too much time planning, researching, buying materials for stuff we're going to do but never actually get to and waiting for the perfect moment to start...which, of course, never comes. He wrote that we should stop all this and just start. That we already have everything we need to make some step forward. I also read, some where, that we need to make our goals a priority and give them the time they deserve. So true. Many of us, me included, think our schedules are so full that we don't have any time to work on our goals. But maybe if we shift thinking of them as goals and start thinking of them as priorities we may make some progress. To me, a goal is something far on the horizon, a long way off. A priority is something that I know I have to do, like paying my bills. Schedules, I think, also become habit. Get up, coffee, shower and dress, work, dinner, TV, bed... I know if I stopped automatically going through my day and thought about my next move that I could find some time for my projects. Finding just 15 minutes every day, over the next year is nearly 100 hours. A lot of progress could be made in 100 hours. What could you accomplish in 100 hours?